Top of the volcano

Anything new, fresh and different is rare in the craft of storytelling, but Harlan Ellison, as a born storyteller, created stories that were bold, fearless and surprising anew each time; he took his prose to the edge of audacity and strangeness, he wrote with experience and with a bluntness - and he always made sure that his words, even in our word-overdose world, were unexpectedly full of life and passion. He was like a volcano spewing hot lava in the form of stories. Since the groundbreaking 1950s and 1960s, when the world was finding its new dynamic identity, to a presence full of clichés and superficiality, he still wrote with elegance and clarity, yet always lively, and he was still able to get under the readers' skin. < br> < br> And now it's finally here. The top of the volcano: Harlan Ellison's award-winning short stories is just the collection we've been hoping for. Twenty-three of the best short stories, which have won major prizes from the first to the last, are published in a single volume, and with it a truly extraordinary prose writer is finally introduced in Czech translation. These are lyrics full of light and fire from an author who always had something to say and knew exactly how. In one volume comes the best from one of the most distinctive voices in the fantasy genre. Stories suitable for newcomers as well as long-time science fiction fans - even seasoned professionals; will remind everyone of the qualities that literature can achieve. < br> < br> < br> < br> " No one in American literature has been - or will be. Furious, funny, eloquent, hugely talented. If there is an afterlife, Harlan is now taking it all by the hook there as well."< br> Stephen King